The villainous magical girl's daily mission is to find fault.

Chapter 645 The Prelude to Qiu Gui's Suffering

the next morning.

Another peaceful night passed in tranquility. The fox girl stretched her body and straightened her tail in the morning sun, enjoying the refreshing sunshine.

"Mmm—!"

"It feels so good to bask in the sun!" said Su Tianqing as she drew back the curtains to greet the rising sun.

But a cat's ear peeked out from the bedroom door, followed by half a small head. Nan Jiayu curiously looked around the bedroom and saw the golden fox stretching its body on the balcony. Its cat eyes shrank considerably in the sunlight, and it couldn't help but blink.

"Tianqing, are you awake? I made some dumplings, let's have dumplings for breakfast."

"Yay! What kind of filling is it?"

"Half of it is pork and chives, and the other half is cabbage and pork. If it's sunny, would you like it boiled or steamed? If you're steaming it, I'll get you a dipping sauce..."

"I want steamed dumplings!"

Su Tianqing didn't have many requirements about how dumplings were eaten, but steamed dumplings suited her taste better than boiled dumplings—the dumpling skin had a chewy texture, and her gums would cheer with every bite, which was a real treat.

Fox Girl was washing up and brushing her teeth in the bathroom, while Nan Jiayu tidied up the somewhat messy kitchen, put the pot on the steamer, and neatly arranged a row of dumplings on the steamer.

I also boiled two eggs in the pot, which is quite a high-end breakfast. It's nutritious, filling, and the leftover dumplings can be frozen for the next meal. They're much tastier than the noodles and buns from street vendors.

While waiting for the steamed dumplings to be served, Su Tianqing took the secret manual from her familiar and, after a long absence, decided to flip through the information page to see if there were any new developments.

[Domain Crystal Collection Progress: 2/20]

The secret manual revealed such interesting new information. Looking at the content displayed on the page, Su Tianqing couldn't help but stop what she was doing to get the milk, pinched the page of the manual between her fingers, and turned the page.

Domain Crystallization? I only heard this relatively new term yesterday during Inari's magic open class. Secret Codex, you really keep up with the times, as if you're afraid this fox won't understand the information you provide. Su Tianqing thought to herself.

Inari explained in detail the origin of monsters with domain abilities: After Garuda was completely destroyed, the enormous magical power it brought from the astral plane could not return, so it could only gather and settle in the mortal world as residual magical power, which would spontaneously accumulate on wild monsters, giving them the ability to "interfere with the rules" to a certain extent.

After these new types of monsters are defeated, this precipitated Garuda magic will form a solidified crystal, filled with ancient magic from the astral plane and possessing some of Garuda's characteristics.

Actually, Su Tianqing felt that such an explanation was a bit complicated, so she decided to explain it in her own words—

After defeating these monsters, you can obtain magic-formed stones. After analyzing them, you can let the Heart Moon Magic Wand control the power of Garuda contained within the magic stones... As the saying goes, monsters eat Garuda fragments, so it is only right that I, this fox, will use the Heart Moon Magic Wand to eat the monsters. Only in this way can we have a complete food chain.

"The dumplings are here! The dipping sauce is over here, and if you think it's not spicy enough, there's also chili oil over here."

Before Su Tianqing could delve deeper into her thoughts, a steaming plate of dumplings was served. The aroma of the delicious food immediately caught the fox girl's nose, and her fox tail swayed violently behind her.

"It smells so good~ I'll try this first... Ah, it's so hot, whew whew..."

"Be careful, it's just been taken out of the steamer."

Seeing the fox girl pouting and blowing on the dumplings to cool them down, looking so impatient, Nan Jiayu said with a smile.

While eating, the two naturally began to talk about what they had discussed the previous night:

"Huff... huff..."

Nan Jiayu blew on a dumpling to cool it down, carefully brought it to her mouth, and took a bite out of half. She then glanced at the fox girl across the table, who had already finished showing off three or four dumplings.

"Tianqing, what did you talk about with Yelan last night? She seemed quite worried. Did something happen?"

"Hmm? This..."

Upon hearing this, Su Tianqing curiously pricked up her fox ears, shifted her gaze upwards, and pondered for a moment.

"I think I forgot to tell you yesterday, Xiaoyu, but it wasn't anything particularly important. It was mainly because Gougou was having some trouble."

"Is it dangerous?"

"It's not dangerous, you could even say it's quite relaxed... It's certainly very relaxed for us, but it might not be so simple for some of the parties involved." The fox girl grinned slightly, her fox eyes narrowed a bit, and a cunning expression suddenly appeared.

Nan Jiayu was already very familiar with the changes in the expressions of those around her. Seeing Su Tianqing's familiar smile, her own sense of amusement was instantly ignited. She chewed a few bites, swallowed the dumplings, and then asked:

"To be more specific, Tianqing, do you have any new ideas?"

"This wasn't my idea. How should I put it... it was more like an unexpected situation." Su Tianqing smiled wryly and put down her chopsticks.

She wasn't lying—Miss Qiugui traded a box of limited-edition merchandise for a [Mindscape Experience Card] from the dog, which was definitely beyond her expectations.

The trial card was distributed as a regular nightly reward for high-level commissions during the reconstruction event. Quite a few people held it, and judging from my remote monitoring of the mental world, Nightingale's trial card had already been used up for almost a hundred hours.

It's hard to imagine how she managed to use up over a hundred hours of time in just over ten days. Didn't she need to sleep?

After hearing the whole story of how Qiu Gui's team obtained the Mind Image Experience Card, Nan Jiayu, unusually silent, chewed on a dumpling and then said:

"That means Qiu Gui and the others traded tickets to 'Tian Qing Ni Xin Xiang World' with Ye Lan, and then made the music video for that new song inside..."

"Then, unfortunately, the mental world they obtained was recently modified by you, Tianqing, who added an experimental domain monster to it, in order to test its specific domain strength and type?"

"That's how it seems at the moment." Su Tianqing nodded. "I haven't gone to Qiu Gui and the others to verify it yet, but judging from what has happened so far, it should be pretty much the same."

“…………”

Nan Jiayu picked up the glass of milk beside her, took a swig, slumped her shoulders, sighed helplessly, and said:

"Sigh... How are Qiu Gui and the others doing? If they discovered it in time, they should be able to handle the monster, right? After all, they still have control over the mental world."

"Perfect timing, Little Fish, look at this."

The familiar grabbed Su Tianqing's phone and flew to the desktop, showing Nan Jiayu the news page on the screen:

The famous Chongqing idol group Qiu Gui has mysteriously disappeared after the release of their new song's music video.

Nan Jiayu silently took a few more glances to make sure she wasn't mistaken.

"Qiu Gui and the others seem to be in trouble."